For who would live so petty and unblest That dare not tilt at something ere he die; Rather than, screened by safe majority, Preserve his little life to little end, And never raise a rebel cry!
JOHN GALSWORTHYWe are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.
More John Galsworthy Quotes
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He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.
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Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it.
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We have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.
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A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, Nothing else.
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For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing.
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Humanism is the creed of those who believe that in the circle of enwrapping mystery, men’s fates are in their own hands.
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Those are the moments that I think are precious to a dog-when, with his adoring soul coming through his eyes, he feels that you are really thinking of him.
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Light-heartedness always made Soames suspicious – there was generally some reason for it.
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It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.
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The French cook; we open tins.
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The bicycle… has been responsible for more movement in manners and morals than anything since Charles the Second.
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One can even tell the nature of one’s readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.
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For, what is grievous, dompting, grim, about our lives is that we are shut up within ourselves, with an itch to get outside ourselves.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.
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